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Popular Fallacies Concerning Mind Cure 

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REGENERATION VS. DEGENERATION. 



CHAPTER I. 

AMONG the varied signs of the day may be noted a tendency 
on the part of some writers of ability to enlarge on the most 
depressing aspects of our fin de Steele civilization. Granting 
that it is perhaps too artificial to be really healthy, and that 
certain evib undoubtedly exist, still it is not thereby proved 
that Ave are actually retrograding. 

Popular literature is frequently morbid, and many declare 
that, though sad indeed, even the darkest pictures are all too 
true. But are these views correct ? To be true to life a pict- 
ure must be many-sided, embracing features which frequently 
seem paradoxical. Do the pessimists and deteriorationists ever 
present other than the darkest side of life's picture? The ex- 
pression, "a fool's paradise," is constantly on the derisive lips of 
those who seem determined to see nothing but the plague-spots 
of society; but may there not be " a fool's inferno " more fool- 
ish than any highly-colored Paradiso, which is at least a beau- 
tiful folly? 

In this objective state, no observing person can truthfully 
say that all is fair, and sweet, and honorable ; therefore no 
faithful artist can paint all things as they actually exist couleur 
de rose. But if art in all its forms be rightfully an incentive 
and aid to progress, then it is the duty of the true artist — 
painter, sculptor, musician, poet, litterateur, or dramatist — to 
select healthy and ennobling subjects in preference to those 
which tend to increase sorrow by turning hope into despair. 

The chief object of this article is to counteract in some meas- 
ure the baneful effects produced by a too vivid and incessant 



contemplation of disfigurements and grievances, a practice which 
has unhappily become prevalent in many quarters. Some writ- 
ers of decided talent (though probably of little genius) untir- 
ingly depict the woes and sins of humanity, as if the world 
were rapidly going to destruction and they were specially com- 
missioned to advise us of the fact. 

Plays, novels, and magazine articles teem with direful 
proofs of certain and rapid deterioration, and we seem to be re- 
garded as participants in a mad race toward death, or as mere 
puppets of a fate designed by a blind and vague monstrosity 
known as the " Law of Necessity." Heredity and environ- 
ment are the catchwords of this pessimistic cult. By means of 
a fatal heredity we are forced downward, it is said, and a dia- 
bolical environment only accelerates our fall. If science, instead 
of nescience and sciolism, were brought into court to testify to 
the true nature of heredity and environment, we should be told 
that both are largely under our own control, and that nothing 
is too strong for the all-powerful spirit of man when once he 
recognizes his innate potency and determines with all the energy 
of his essentially god-like nature to compel fate to serve him 
as he wills. Hereditary tendencies undoubtedly influence us at 
the outset of life, and no kindly person thinks reproachfully of 
those victims of an unhappy physical origin who, being as yet 
unaware of their own spiritual possessions and capabilities, are 
held in the vice of inherited proclivity to abnormality. But 
no fate is hopeless; no human existence is so fettered by in- 
firmity or hedged in with error that it cannot extricate itself, 
though possibly not without assistance from more " fortunate'" 
neighbors. 

There are two kinds of optimism — one totally laissez faire, 
and the other practically stirring and vigorous. The doctrine 
of regeneration — the new and second birth of humanity — as un- 
derstood by science, is by no means synonymous with the relig- 
ious tenet that man at his birth is totally sinful and depraved, 
and can only become a child of God by a complete change of 
nature. There is doubtless a great esoteric verity underneath 
that dogma, but the truth is so obscured by assumptions that it 



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is difficult to find. The New Testament, however, is quite 
clear in its teachings, notably the third chapter of the Gospel 
of St. John. The new birth is but an introduction to a higher 
realm of consciousness. " Except a man be born again, he can- 
not see the kingdom of God." The word see is highly sugges- 
tive here, as it unmistakably refers to spiritual vision, or interior 
apprehension of reality. 

The true optimist, working for the regeneration of humanity, 
acknowledges that the present state of society is imperfect; but 
he denies that it is rotten at the core and is constantly drifting 
from bad to worse, as the opposite school asserts. It can surely 
never be otherwise than healthful and of use to search for the 
finest passages in literature, the grandest and sweetest strains 
in music, the most symmetrical figures in sculpture, and the 
most harmonious blending of form and color in the painter's art. 
The critical spirit of the times is responsible for many of the 
very tendencies which are brought so prominently to the front in 
the painful scenes depicted in the literature of to-day. Is it 
healthful to be forever contemplating empty skulls, while so 
many active minds await examination ? Need we perpetually 
interrogate closet skeletons and force open private cupboards to 
prove the unwelcome ghosts of the dead, while the fields of the 
living are filled with summer blossoms and the air redolent with 
their sweetness ? 

The vice of criticism is the bane of modern civilization ; and 
the sensational interviewers and reviewers of the period seem to 
close their ears against harmonies, so intent are they on listen- 
ing to discords ; and to shut their eyes to purity and honor, so 
eager are they to retail the latest scandal to the highest bidder. 
Newspapers certainly do good, but they might do more good 
and inflict less pain on their readers were they to devote para- 
graphs to vice and crime and double-leaded columns to virtue. 
" But," say the alarmists, " were you to make less of evil, peo- 
ple would soon indulge in it even more unblushingly than at 
present ; and were you to lessen in any degree the condemna- 
tion meted out to the guilty offender you would loosen moral 
restraints already lax, and in consequence assist the wicked 



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world in its downward course ! " In reply to these argu- 
ments, the thorough-going optimist may simply say : You are 
leaving completely out of account the immense force which pro- 
ceeds from real virtue. 

It is the growing conviction of workers in reformatory 
causes that there are two sets of foes to be encountered, and 
that the most difficult to cope with are those who consider them- 
selves pre-eminently the friends and promoters of " righteous- 
ness." It may safely be said that the best minds — the sound- 
est, cleanest, and healthiest, the world over — rejoice in manifest 
progress ; but there are depressing features, discouraging to all 
save a few interpreters of the signs of the times who feel sure 
that the present days are mentioned and foretold in the Great 
Pyramid, and that we are now in a narrow passage leading into 
a King's Chamber, where all is light and liberty. 

If we are at this moment in a specially transitional state, then 
many signs which would otherwise be depressing may be posi- 
tively encouraging. Swedenborg has much to say of vastation, 
which is only purification by means of an outlet for whatever 
is distorted or inverted and has therefore become infernal. 
Swedenborg, with characteristic realism, teaches that the 
heavens and hells in the universe stand feet to feet — the heav- 
ens erect, the hells inverted heavens — so that the soles of the 
feet of the heavens meet those of the feet of the hells. This 
curious imagery, which is, however, quite in accordance with 
the Hermetic doctrine of the Great Man, serves as a vivid pict- 
ure of what evil really is. When we recognize it as simply an 
inversion of good, we shall speedily learn how to cure the oth- 
erwise incurable. Were there in the universe a devil from 
the beginning — an eternal spirit of evil, co-equal of God, who 
is Goodness Absolute — then the everlasting reign of evil would 
be a certainty ; but even Milton's tremendous Satan and Dante's 
legions of the Inferno lend no countenance to such a supposi- 
tion. A fallen angel who was once upright, and therefore in 
the nature of things capable of recovering from the deepest fall, 
is the worst conception of either of the great dramatic poets 
who gave to Europe its Satanic Majesty. 



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A mediaeval legend concerning the devil shows how keenly 
alive were the thinkers of even that darkened period, and how 
truly and practically metaphysical were their ideas concerning 
the regenerative influence of elevating suggestions and the 
deteriorative trend of pessimistic inculcations. The story runs 
that during the Middle Ages the devil frequently donned the 
habit of a preaching friar; and when officiating as a zealous 
monk in a church pulpit, the arch-enemy of souls (or one of his 
emissaries) had but one theme of discourse — the horrors of hell 
and the tortures of the damned. So fiery were the words and 
so declamatory the style of the intrepid exhorter that the 
listeners imagined they could see the flames and hear the 
shrieks and groans of their fellow-sinners; but tradition says 
most truly that by depicting such nameless horrors no one was 
led to live a worthier life. To adapt a phrase from a poet's 
version of St. Anthony's sermon to fishes, " Much frightened 
[not delighted] were they, but each went his own way." 

But there is quite another side to these tales of the Middle 
Ages, for the same tradition says that sometimes a bright and 
glorious angel disguised himself as a preaching friar ; but when 
he ascended the pulpit, his heart being full of the love of God 
and the raptures of saints in heaven, he could discourse upon 
no other theme, and as the sermon proceeded hard hearts 
melted, sinners were converted, and souls were saved from 
error and its consequences — all through the agency of an appeal 
from first to last to that pure love of godliness which, though 
it slumber profoundly or be deeply concealed, is never absent 
from a single member of the human race. 

It is to be regretted that many gifted writers, some of them 
women of genius, should lessen their own glory and trail the 
garments of literary art in the mire in order to paint in glowing 
colors (and not with evil intent) the most flagrant short-com- 
ings and perversions of the least sanctified elements of society. 
The plea is often made, as was done in many stirring temper- 
ance lectures by John B. Gough, that the wretched spectacle 
of the inebriate served to deter youth from taking the first 
plunge into the sea of drunkenness; but- would the effect upon 



boys be good were their preceptors constantly to assail them 
with graphic, portrayals of such degradation as the confirmed 
toper exhibits ? Surely the constant companionship of high 
ideals, noble examples, and virtuous suggestions is worth infi- 
nitely more in building up stalwart, unimpeachable manhood 
than all the vice exhibits which could possibly be concocted. 

Whatever is pure is purifying, and whatever is depraved is 
corrupting — so far as the influence of either can extend. It is 
on this declaration that metaphysical activity in a regenerative 
direction is based. The subsistent idea is that human nature is 
surely rising, even though its upward career be by way of a 
spiral pathway rather than up an inclined plane. We appar- 
ently retrograde, while actually advancing. We fall in rising, 
and rise after repeated falls to heights we could never have 
attained had it not been for the experiences gained while trav- 
elling from the primitive Eden of nude innocence to the sun- 
clothed state of knowledge which goes hand in hand with 
purity. It is but rarely that we find moralists discriminating as 
they should between innocence and purity. Virgin innocence 
may be likened to a pearl, white but lustreless, while purity is 
like the dazzling diamond, which flashes forth a thousand scin- 
tillations from its facets' radiating surface. 

The two sons in that sweetest of all anecdotes, the parable 
of the " Prodigal Son," distinctly represent two conditions of 
humanity — the one remaining in its original, undisciplined, 
inexperienced self-complacency ; the other displaying the ulti- 
mate result of conquest over every temptation. The battle of 
life is a struggle for higher existence. Mere perpetuation of 
race by multiplication of species could never fulfil the end of 
evolution. We are indeed potentially all that we ever shall 
become; but our gifts lie dormant, and we are satisfied to doze 
before awakening to the glorious realities of living, by the wand 
of all that trying experience which is only a testing and educat- 
ing process. 



CHAPTER II. 

Students of Oriental philosophies state that a Kali Yug, 
or great year, covering about five thousand years of earthly 
time, will come to an end about the close of the present cen- 
tury, and every reader of the mystic Hindu books knows that 
abundant predictions have been made by Oriental sages that when 
this cycle shall end great disturbances will be followed by an era 
of peace and enlightenment — to the astonished delight of those 
who, unaware of the sure predictions, imagined the world was 
rushing to destruction at a constantly increasing rate of speed. 

From this stand-point the phrase fin de Steele becomes in- 
telligible as signifying but the end of an age. Objection is fre- 
quently made to the use of this phrase, it being contended that 
there is no warrant for dealing with the age of a century as 
with that of a man. Centuries, it is said, are not born in help- 
less infancy, to pass through an adolescent period before they 
reach maturity, at length to descend into the valley of doting 
old age. Though there is apparently much reason in this con- 
tention, it can scarcely be forgotten by any student of history 
that the last twenty-five years of every century are invariably 
its most remarkable period. The results of seventy-five years 
seem to culminate in the concluding twenty-five. It was at the 
very close of the eighteenth century that the French Revolution 
occurred, and what was the spirit of that uprising but a violent 
protest against superstition and tyranny ? Piously brought-up 
people, who from childhood have been taught to look upon 
Voltaire, Robespierre, and other heroes of the revolutionary 



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epoch as fiends in human disguise, are wonder-stricken when 
they discover accurate excerpts from their writings breathing 
the kindest and gentlest spirit of love to man, and even pro- 
fessing devout faith in a Supreme Intelligence which is essen- 
tial virtue and goodness — the very opposite of the tyrant of 
Bourbon theology whom the people naturally sought to de- 
throne. 

Revolutionists are doubtless mistaken in many of their 
methods, but their motives are not necessarily evil. Difficult 
though it doubtless is for the dispossessed nobility of Europe 
and the millionaires of England and America to see the hand 
of Divine Goodness in what denudes them of their earthly 
possessions, and equally hard though it may be for the rank 
and file of the law-abiding citizens of any republic to see aught 
but iniquity in anarchy, yet the true philosopher is he who 
looks deeper than the surface of events and studies their in- 
herent and essential cause. All peace-loving people are agreed 
that anarchistic methods are false ; but blind condemnation of 
actions, without seeking to know the source whence they pro- 
ceed, is equally erroneous. Fruit ripens in due season, appear- 
ing as a completed product ; tares grow slowly in the field, and as 
they reach maturity the wise student of agriculture seeks to 
know how they grow, and from what they spring, in order that 
orchard, field, and garden may henceforth be kept free from 
noxious products. 

A period of revelation may appear like one of unmitigated 
calamity ; natural results may seem almost like visitations 
of evil ; and some are always quick to decide that every ex- 
pulsion of disease from the body which is accompanied by 
frenzied symptoms is an unfailing sign that a new devil is enter- 
ing, while in truth an old one is being cast out. The wealth of 
meaning contained in many biblical similitudes is so great that 
even should the "higher criticism " completely undermine the 
merely historic elements in the sacred canon, the Bible would 
be more useful than ever as a symbolic portrayal of the per- 
petual connections between causes and effects. We are living 
in a law-governed universe, not in a domain given over to the 



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caprice of chance ; therefore we must seek to become philoso- 
phers — lovers of wisdom, as the word signifies. 

The puerilities of pessimism are due to its shallowness. On 
all sides it is utterly superficial, impatient, and circumscribed. 
Pretending to be scientific, it is nescient ; assuming to trace 
everything to the action of immutable law, it takes but a hur- 
ried glance at appearances and thereby ignores law. All the 
sciences symphonize. Astronomy, geology, botany, anthro- 
pology, etc., prove the leisurely processes of Nature, and all 
indicate that there is a place for seeming retrogression coin- 
cident with progress. Instead of looking upon the dark side 
and preparing for the worst, it behooves us to see the bright 
side and anticipate the best, for only thus are we capable of tak- 
ing active part in the working of regenerative order. 

What is regeneration, but a higher and better truth ? What 
is a birth, but an epiphany or manifestation ? If all blind eulogy 
and harsh condemnation were set aside, and the facts of nature 
laid bare before our vision, we should understand many things 
which now seem obscure. Society is a Prodigal who is fast 
nearing the limit of his resources ; but when he reaches poverty 
he will arise and return home a better, braver, wiser fellow than 
when at the earliest dawn of manhood he strayed from his 
Father's House. 

Many people have been determined to see what they call 
" the world." " One world at a time," they say, is all they can 
pay attention to. And this may fully absorb our practical in- 
terest ; but if we are investigating one world we are surely en- 
titled to see all there is to be seen from the stand-point of that 
world. Two men pass down a country lane arm-in-arm. They 
are not blind and their feet do not stumble. One says to the 
other : " How brilliant are the stars ; how beautiful the fleecy 
clouds hanging like soft drapery about the moon ! I wonder if 
we shall ever visit those distant orbs ? " His companion re- 
plies : "I was just thinking how many worms there are in this 
neighborhood. I have counted over two hundred during the 
last five minutes." The first speaker then remarks: "And 
while you, my friend, have been counting the worms which 



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crawl on the earth, I have been counting the stars which shine 
in the heavens, and during the same space of time I have 
counted more than five hundred." Verily there are worms and 
there are stars. If our glance is directed downward, our world 
is peopled with the former ; but if our heads are erect and our 
eyes turned skyward, the same earth is an observatory for 
higher things. 

Are we retrograding ? Yes, from the point of view of the 
worm-hunter. Are we progressing ? Yes, to the vision of the 
star-gazer. Everything depends upon the point of view and 
condition of the beholder. The cynic — whose painful attacks of 
indigestion aggravate the mental distemper which gave them 
birth — sees with jaundiced eyes, as through a thick black veil ; to 
him, consequently, the earth is black. Pessimism is a disease. 
It is also the child as well as the parent of disease. Because it 
is fatalistic and hopeless it cannot be prophetic, for prophets are 
invariably exhorters to righteousness, and to exhort to im- 
possible righteousness were a sheer waste of energy. Christ 
condemns and destroys iniquity ; and there is in every one 
an essential Christ. Self-accusation traced to its origin is 
self-glorification. Contrition for sin — a painful sense of weak- 
ness and unworthiness — comes from a glimpse of the indwell- 
ing Divine Spirit, who seems to upbraid for lowness by tell- 
ing of possible highness. As with individual, so with collective, 
human experience. The race is engulfed in error, and weighed 
down more or less with a sense of its shortcomings ; yet 
this load of humiliation is not a crushing burden, but a re- 
movable incubus which no one would attempt to lift unless he 
realized the power within him. Hydraulic pressure in the 
moral world is supplied both from without and within. We 
cannot lift ourselves unaided, but all the beneficent agencies of 
the Infinite are at our call if we but make use of our prerogatives. 

Now that the degenerationists have a literature and a 
propaganda, it is time that their philosophical opponents, the 
regenerationists, should assert themselves. Assertions are too 
often permitted to go unchallenged ; gauntlets are thrown down 
and no one picks them up. A challenge is offered by the ne- 



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gationist school, and it behooves affirmationists to embrace the 
auspicious moment to demonstrate the fallacies of pessimism. 
There is work to be done ; divine science is demonstrable ; the 
power of thought exerted for good can be displayed. Despite 
the current fad for depressing plays and literature, the great heart 
of humanity hopes for the best. It would rather believe that 
all things are working together for good than for evil. 

Heredity and environment are thrust forward as the all in 
all. Let us, then, accept the challenge, and show how the 
very action of hereditary transmission can be exerted solely and 
powerfully in the direction of a higher generation ; for if bad 
traits can be transmitted to offspring, so also may good ones. 
Moreover, if surroundings are of such importance, are we to un- 
derstand that influence must be evil in order to be effective ? 
that environments must be vile if they are to produce results? 
Through the avenues of the pessimistic school regenerative in- 
fluences must show that good, not evil, is supreme in the uni- 
verse. There is an exaggerated sentiment of kindliness which 
causes much saddening error. Many kind-hearted people spend 
their lives in over-rating the misery in the world, and such per- 
petual harping upon woe only depresses the singers of lachry- 
mose songs, and often increases callousness in the very people 
against whose cruelties the sentimentalists protest. 

The very names of well-meaning institutions might be al- 
tered with exceeding profit. Instead of societies for the " pre- 
vention of cruelty," let us have organizations for the promotio7i 
of kindness to animals and children. There is much in a name, 
for it offers suggestion of no mean value. A " home for incura- 
bles " cannot be expected to cure any one, for the title seals the 
doom of the inmates as they enter. A "home for inebriates " 
cannot cure a drunkard, for he is labelled inebriate, and ex- 
pected to remain below the reach of moral suasion. A school 
for ragged children forbids their appearance in decent clothing, 
for were they properly attired they would be trespassers upon 
the name ; and so, through an interminable list of misguided 
titles, the world's progress is often hindered by its would-be 
helpers. 



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The lesson for reformers of every sort is hard to learn, but if 
truly sincere they can soon compel themselves to learn it. 
Logic is relentless. If your neighbor is to control his passions, 
you must control your feelings ; if your patient is to grow ami- 
able, you must not see his irritability. To see the kingdom of 
God is to become regenerate. The good which lurks in all 
awaits the sunshine of a smile of recognition to call it forth. 
Away, then, with the self-righteous methods of those who wail 
over degenerate tendencies, and on with the new metaphysical 
methods of reform which shall render sin impossible through 
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